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Blemished Physiologies: Delacroix, Paganini, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832

2001; College Art Association; Volume: 83; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00043079.2001.10787003

1559-6478

Nina Athanassoglou‐Kallmyer,

History of Medicine Studies

What is the cultural impact of disruptive, catastrophic upheaval—such as massive epidemic—and how does its impact get translated in artistic representation? Exploring the peculiar cultural, social, and biomedical parameters shaped by the great cholera epidemic of 1832 in Paris, this article focuses on Eugene Delacroix's small portrait of the Italian violinist-composer Niccolo Paganini, who performed in Paris in 1831 and 1832, as the circumstantial product and symbolic focus of newly minted, intersecting medical, intellectual, moral, social, and aesthetic discourses in the early July Monarchy.